Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Huggetts Abroad (1949)


Gainsborough Pictures
Directed by Ken Annakin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

When Dad gets fired at his job the family decided to go to South Africa, by land! The buy an old truck and head off to Algeria. Unbeknownst to them, the passenger they took along to help pay expenses is smuggling stolen diamonds. When he gets wounded in a bad deal, they have to get him to a doctor in the middle of the desert. Absurd situational comedy that features young Petula Clark strumming ditties on her guitar and Dad wishing for an English pub in the middle of a sand storm.

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